Silvan Scherrer
Unternehmensinhaber at bww bitwise works GmbH
Zuzwil (SG), St. Gallen, Switzerland
Summary
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Top SchoolSilvan Scherrer is an experienced Swiss IT entrepreneur and hands-on systems specialist with over 20 years leading projects and developing cross-platform applications for POWER/i5 (AS/400) environments. As owner of AROA Informatik AG and CTO of bww bitwise works GmbH, he blends legacy System i expertise (RPG III/IV, ILE RPG) with modern C/C++, Qt and PHP development and pragmatic project management. He is comfortable architecting heterogeneous server landscapes, porting software across platforms and operating core services like mail, HTTP, FTP, VPN and firewalls. Beyond IT he co-owns a diving business and brings instructor-level discipline and equipment repair skills to technical problem solving, an unusual combination that underscores practical, safety-minded systems thinking. Trained as an Information Technology specialist (eidg. Diplom), he is particularly strong at bridging vintage enterprise systems and contemporary open-source solutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Wirtschaftsinformatiker, Information Technology, eidg. Diplom, Wirtschaftsinformatiker, Information Technology, eidg. Diplom at SIB
German, English
Github Skills (59)
poppler10
pdf-files9
pdf9
printing7
ipp-protocol6
php6
cups6
samba6
mozilla5
prestashop5
escpos5
libc5
snmp4
linux4
printer4
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
bitwiseworks/openssl-os2
May 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 13 branches, 23 tags in 7 years
bitwiseworks/gnutls-os2
Mar 2020 - Feb 2024
Contributions:14 pushes, 2 branches, 3 tags in 3 years 11 months
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